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Replaying Communism Online Symposium
1 December 2023
Please note that all times refer to GMT (UK)
9.00-9.15 Welcome and opening remarks from Anna Váradi & Lucy Jeffery
9.15-10.15 First Panel: Museums. Chaired by Liz Barnes
9.15-9.35 Judit Holp
Memento Park Budapest: the final location of controversial monuments from the Communist era in Hungary
9.35-9.55 Samantha Vaughn
Warsaw’s Museal Landscape: Media, Authenticity, and Messaging Communist Histories
9.55-10.15 Questions and discussion
10.15-10.20 Comfort break (5 minutes)
10.20-12.10 Second Panel: Media. Chaired by Lucy Jeffery
10.20-10.40 Jakub Gortat
'Zersetzung' as a source of individual and collective trauma. Dealing with the German communist past in Das schweigende Klassenzimmer (2018) and Nahschuss (2021)
10.40-11.00 Giuseppe Mattia
Five Candles in Ceaușescu’s Dark Ages. Humour vs Communism in Tales from the Golden Age (2009) by Cristian Mungiu
11.00-11.20 Fanni Antalóczy
Self-colonising Tendencies of Representing Communism in Contemporary Hungarian Cinema
11.20-11.40 Sylwia Szostak
Netflix Originals in Poland and Imagined Socialism – Local signifier for global audiences
11.40-12.10 Questions and discussion
12.10-1.10 Lunch
1.10-2.10 Third Panel: Rhetoric. Chaired by Fanni Antalóczy
1.10-1.30 Valentina Pricopie & Cristina Damboeanu
'Davai ceas, davai palton.' Episodic Media Frames of the Soviet Occupation of Romania
1.30-1.50 Anna Szilágyi
Playing it again in post-communism: The revolutionary rhetoric of Viktor Orbán in Hungary
1.50-2.10 Questions and discussion
2.10-2.15 Comfort break (5 minutes)
2.15-3.30 Keynote: Anikó Imre 'Communism as Global Storytelling'. Chaired by Anna Váradi.
3.30-4.00 Reflection and closing remarks
We would like to thank the AHRC awarding body SWWDTP for funding this project and the University of Reading, UK, for supporting the project leads.